The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli genocide since October 7, 2023, has risen to 64,368 Palestinian martyrs and 162,367 wounded, noting that "numerous victims remain under the rubble and on the streets, as ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them due to the ongoing Israeli bombardment."
The ministry said in its daily statistical report that hospitals in the Gaza Strip received 68 martyrs over the past 24 hours, including 8 who were pulled from the rubble, and 362 injured.
She added, "The death toll and injuries since the genocide resumed on March 18, 2025, has reached 11,828 martyrs and 50,326 injuries."
It also confirmed that six Palestinians, including a child, died in the past few hours as a result of deliberate starvation and malnutrition, bringing the death toll from starvation to 382, including 135 children, since October 7, 2023.
The ministry stated that "since the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Global Initiative declared a famine in Gaza on August 22, 104 new deaths have been recorded, including 20 children," warning of the food catastrophe spreading to the central and southern parts of the Strip.
Regarding aid casualties, the ministry said the death toll has risen to 2,385 and 17,577 wounded since May 27, as a result of targeting aid recipients. This comes after the Israeli occupation army killed 23 Palestinians and wounded 143 others in the last few hours.
Violent attacks and bombing of residential towers
Since dawn on Saturday, the Israeli occupation has killed at least 31 Palestinians and injured dozens more in a series of violent attacks, largely focused on Gaza City, which it seeks to occupy and displace its residents.
In the northern Gaza Strip, Gaza City witnessed intense shelling, resulting in the deaths of 17 Palestinians in various neighborhoods. Two Palestinians were also killed in shelling by an Israeli drone targeting a civilian gathering on Yarmouk Street .
In the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, eight Palestinians from the same family were killed, along with another child, in a drone strike on a group of civilians. In the Zeitoun neighborhood, civil defense crews recovered the body of a martyr from under the rubble.
In Al-Shati refugee camp, five Palestinians from the same family were killed when an apartment building near Martyrs' Square was bombed. A number of civilians were injured, and rubble fell on others after another family's home was bombed in Al-Nafaq Street.
Israeli aircraft also bombed the 15-story Al-Sousi Tower, which includes 60 apartments, on Al-Sina'a Street, leveling it to the ground. Eyewitnesses confirmed that the occupation forces forcibly evacuated the Al-Sousi Tower and Al-Ru'ya Building before bombing them, as Palestinian families were seen throwing their belongings out of the windows.
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The Israeli occupation army claimed that "the Al-Susi Tower was being used by Hamas as an observation post," vowing to continue targeting residential towers. On Friday, it destroyed the Mashtaha Tower, which housed hundreds of Palestinians in western Gaza, after giving residents less than an hour to evacuate.
In the southern Gaza Strip, the shelling focused on Khan Yunis, where an elderly man was killed by Israeli tank fire in Al-Mawasi, and a child was killed by shelling of a civilian vehicle. In the Al-Amal neighborhood, northwest of the city, an Israeli drone killed two Palestinians, while occupation forces continued to destroy homes east of the city with artillery shelling.
Three Palestinians were also killed by Israeli drone strikes on Gamal Abdel Nasser Street and in central Khan Yunis. Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces shot dead five Palestinians while waiting for aid southwest of the city.
In the central Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed near Netzarim while waiting for aid, while Israeli artillery and aircraft continued to shell neighborhoods.
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Total destruction after 700 days of war
In a separate statement, the government media office in Gaza said the 700-day war has resulted in the near-total destruction of 90% of the infrastructure, with initial losses exceeding $68 billion.
The statement explained that during this period, the occupation committed massacres that resulted in the martyrdom and disappearance of 73,731 Palestinians, including more than 20,000 children and 12,500 women, in addition to the complete extermination of 2,700 families from the civil registry.
The war also killed 1,670 medical personnel, 248 journalists, 139 civil defense personnel, and 173 municipal employees, while more than 162,000 people suffered permanent disabilities, including amputation, paralysis, and blindness, according to the statement.
The statement noted the destruction of 38 hospitals, 833 mosques, and 163 educational institutions, in addition to thousands of other facilities, stressing that the occupation is imposing a systematic starvation policy that threatens the lives of more than 2.4 million Palestinians, half of whom are children.
The media office held the Israeli occupation and its supporting states, led by the United States, fully responsible for the "war crimes" committed. It called on Arab and Islamic countries and the international community to take immediate action to halt the aggression, end the siege, ensure the return of the displaced, and hold the occupation's leaders accountable before international courts.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it. In addition to the martyrs and wounded, most of whom are children and women, the genocide has left more than 9,000 missing and hundreds of thousands displaced.
